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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MAULL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PROCESS OF MAKING POTATO-MEAL.

$PECI1 'ICATI0N forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,159, dated July 6, 1886.

Application filed July 22, 1884. Serial No. 138,479. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES MAULL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in theSt-ate of Missouri,have invented a new and useful Process of Making Potato-Meal, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in the manufacture of meal from potatoes in the following manner, viz Peel the potatoes, then slice 'or grate them, and drop into clear water, when a sediment like flour will gather in the bottom of the vessel containing the water. This sediment is cleaned by repeated washing in Water, and is then dried. The pieces or grated potatoes are then bleached with sulphur or other chemical, then dried by heat, and then ground into meal. fore referred to are then mixed together.

Said meal and the flour hereinbe- CHARLES MAULL.

WVitnesses:

J ULIUS ROBERTSON, F. A. WIND. 

